The Life of 70s Hollywood Icon Cybill Shepherd

In 1990, Shepherd returned to film with Alice, directed by Woody Allen and starring Mia Farrow. Her role was smaller than the television success she had recently experienced, but it placed her back in a theatrical film after the end of Moonlighting.

The appearance helped fill the gap between one television chapter and the next. After years of being closely identified with Maddie Hayes, she was testing where she fit outside that role. But her strongest next comeback would not come from film—it would come from a sitcom built much closer to her own life.